by efc8d-admin | Nov 24, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Anti-Zionism, Organizing, Palestine, Technologies
Today I talk with Omar Zahzah about his new book, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. This is an immensely informative study, which details the convergence of Zionism, Silicon Valley Big...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 7, 2025 | Capitalism, Empire and Colonialism, Political Economies, Politics and Culture, Technologies
In this episode of Speaking Out of Place, investigative journalist Karen Hao explains that OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed and elitist. Her massive study, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares...
by efc8d-admin | Jul 23, 2025 | Abolition, Capitalism, Technologies
Ever since its publication, Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism has proven to be more urgent and insightful. Today I talk with author Wendy Liu about how developments like AI and LLM, further erosions of intellectual property, and...
by efc8d-admin | Jun 2, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Antifascism, Art and Cultural Resistance, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Gender, Labor, Philosophy, Politics and Culture, Recovering Radical Histories, Technologies
Today I talk with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi about their dazzling and challenging book, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 to 2072. They imagine a world haunted by genocide, ecocide, disease, fascism, and viral capitalism, but...
by efc8d-admin | May 25, 2025 | Capitalism, Fascism, Gender, Labor, Politics and Culture, Technologies
Worries about the so-called “pussification of Silicon Valley” are not at all new. Becca Lewis’ work reaches far back in American history to trace the nexus of gender, technology, and entrepreneurship, such that what we find today seems a foregone conclusion. In...
